Enlightenment's Wake

John Gray is the bestselling author of such books as "Straw Dogs "and "Al Qaeda and What it Means to be Modern" which brought a mainstream readership to a man who was already one of the UK's most well respected thinkers and political theorists. Gray wrote "Enlightenment's Wake" in 1995 - six years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and six years before the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre. Turning his back on neoliberalism at exactly the moment that its advocates were in their pomp, trumpeting 'the end of history' and the supposedly unstoppable spread of liberal values across the globe, Gray's was a lone voice of scepticism. The thinking he criticised here would lead ultimately to the invasion of Iraq. Today, its folly might seem obvious to all, but as this edition of "Enlightenment's Wake" shows, John Gray has been trying to warn us for some fifteen years - the rest of us are only now catching up with him.

ISBN 0415424046   Pages 320 ISBN13 9780415424042 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Weight (grammes) 340 Imprint Routledge   Published in London Format Paperback   Series title Routledge Classics Publication date 03 Jul 2007   Height (mm) 198 Library of Congress 2007016171   Width (mm) 129 DEWEY 941.07   Spine width (mm) 24 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

Introduction to the Routledge Classics Edition Preface Acknowledgements 1. Against the new liberalism 2. Notes toward a definition of the political thought of Tlon 3. Toleration: a post-liberal perspective 4. Enlightenment, illusion and the fall of the Soviet state 5. The post-communist societies in transition 6. Agnostic liberalism 7. The undoing of conservatism 8. After the new liberalism 9. From post-liberalism to pluralism 10. Enlightenment's Wake Notes Index

'Gray is one of our best social and political theorists ... This powerful and radical work opens as many doors as it closes.' - New Statesman 'Gray is a clever and energetic political theorist in the analytical mode. He is also dauntingly well-read and up-to-date.' - Guardian

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